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2026-06-28Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more (New York Times)
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2026-06-28A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)
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2026-06-28Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-06-28A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including "transfer station" sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users (Wired)
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2026-06-28Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for using Optis' wireless patents (Alistair Gray/Financial Times)
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2026-06-28Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-06-28Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects (Financial Times)
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2026-06-28Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry (Laura Bratton/The Information)
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2026-06-28Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
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2026-06-28How AI is shaping the 2026 US midterms, as public anger grows against data center expansion and the AI industry emerges as one of the biggest financial backers (Bloomberg)
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